LATENIGHT - HALIFAX

Saturday, March 25, 2006

Possible CFL... AND Yogic Flying League?!

Moncton's going gangbusters now. Prime Minister Stephen Harper stopped by the city this week, on his way through New Brunswick, to announce funding for a 10,000-seat stadium. The stadium is earmarked to go together with a Monctonian bid for the 2008 World Junior Track and Field Games, but everyone knows the real outcome for such a facility would be as the cornerstone to acquiring a C.F.L. expansion franchise.

But, not only are they seemingly beating Halifax to the endzone for Atlantic Canada's first C.F.L. team, but they're getting Yogic Flyers too!

The same folks who took over George's and Piscataqui Islands off of Canso, N.S. in October (see blog), the Global Country of World Peace, led by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, are looking at setting up shop in Moncton. The proposed McLaughlin Road Peace Palace would host a spa, meditation facilities and a yogic flying aerodrome-- like the one suggested for Canso.

A couple more of these places and you could set up a pretty cool Atlantic Canadian Yogic Flying League that would beat the pants off Quidditch, not to mention flying circles around the C.F.L.

Labels: Moncton, New Brunswick, politicians, religion, sports

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Expanding the boundaries of Civilization

News surfaced last week that 2kGames is gearing up to release an expansion set to Sid Meier's Civilization IV, entitled "Civilization IV: Warlords."

Details are still a bit sketchy. While I've loved playing the new version of Civ, the official website has been dead as dirt (www.civ4.com looks more like someone's attempt at cybersquatting and doesn't even direct you to the official page anymore without the viewer manually clicking a link below.) Once on the official page, nothing has been updated in ages, including the current forum topic headlines taken from third party sites. At least the actual third party sites are active, and ones such as CivFanatics and Apolyton have lots of great info, mods, and discussion for players. (See the Warlords section at CivFanatics which is already up.)

Screenshots are starting to show up. I have no clue as to how different the expansion will be. They are claiming 6 new civilizations and a half-dozen new scenarios. The images of new leaders don't tell a lot except that existing civilizations will be expanded with more leader options. In fact most of the scenarios also involve civs that are already a part of the game-- with the exception of the Vikings who should be one group that will be making a reappearance with luck.

There also seem to be a few new weapons and buildings, however the biggest change to gameplay will be the aptly named warlord unit. After introducing "great generals" in Civ 3, I was surpised to see them disappear in Civ 4-- especially since "great people" are now an integral component to the game, allowing you to increase production, create city specialists, discover new technologies, etc. Civ 4 has great prophets, artists, merchants, scientists, and engineers... yet they didn't see fit to keep the great generals. It seemed quite odd at the time. Let's hope this "warlord" unit resurrects the concepts of great generals and expands on it fittingly.

Labels: games


	Moonlight missives from Atlantic Canada ∙ HALIFAX, Nova Scotia
	Saturday, March 25, 2006 Possible CFL... AND Yogic Flying League?! Moncton's going gangbusters now. Prime Minister Stephen Harper stopped by the city this week, on his way through New Brunswick, to announce funding for a 10,000-seat stadium. The stadium is earmarked to go together with a Monctonian bid for the 2008 World Junior Track and Field Games, but everyone knows the real outcome for such a facility would be as the cornerstone to acquiring a C.F.L. expansion franchise. But, not only are they seemingly beating Halifax to the endzone for Atlantic Canada's first C.F.L. team, but they're getting Yogic Flyers too! The same folks who took over George's and Piscataqui Islands off of Canso, N.S. in October (see blog), the Global Country of World Peace, led by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, are looking at setting up shop in Moncton. The proposed McLaughlin Road Peace Palace would host a spa, meditation facilities and a yogic flying aerodrome-- like the one suggested for Canso. A couple more of these places and you could set up a pretty cool Atlantic Canadian Yogic Flying League that would beat the pants off Quidditch, not to mention flying circles around the C.F.L. Labels: Moncton, New Brunswick, politicians, religion, sports posted by Ian at 5:09 PM - link ... 0 comments \| links to this post ... Wednesday, March 22, 2006 Expanding the boundaries of Civilization News surfaced last week that 2kGames is gearing up to release an expansion set to Sid Meier's Civilization IV, entitled "Civilization IV: Warlords." Details are still a bit sketchy. While I've loved playing the new version of Civ, the official website has been dead as dirt (www.civ4.com looks more like someone's attempt at cybersquatting and doesn't even direct you to the official page anymore without the viewer manually clicking a link below.) Once on the official page, nothing has been updated in ages, including the current forum topic headlines taken from third party sites. At least the actual third party sites are active, and ones such as CivFanatics and Apolyton have lots of great info, mods, and discussion for players. (See the Warlords section at CivFanatics which is already up.) Screenshots are starting to show up. I have no clue as to how different the expansion will be. They are claiming 6 new civilizations and a half-dozen new scenarios. The images of new leaders don't tell a lot except that existing civilizations will be expanded with more leader options. In fact most of the scenarios also involve civs that are already a part of the game-- with the exception of the Vikings who should be one group that will be making a reappearance with luck. There also seem to be a few new weapons and buildings, however the biggest change to gameplay will be the aptly named warlord unit. After introducing "great generals" in Civ 3, I was surpised to see them disappear in Civ 4-- especially since "great people" are now an integral component to the game, allowing you to increase production, create city specialists, discover new technologies, etc. Civ 4 has great prophets, artists, merchants, scientists, and engineers... yet they didn't see fit to keep the great generals. It seemed quite odd at the time. Let's hope this "warlord" unit resurrects the concepts of great generals and expands on it fittingly. Labels: games posted by Ian at 8:26 AM - link ... 0 comments \| links to this post ...	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